Montgomery County News

Federal, state and military officials are investigating the discovery of about 100 pounds of explosives in Montgomery County.

Keeping your children safe while they trick-or-treat is a big concern at Halloween.

Banquet to feature presentations from local adults, youth By JIMMY SETTLE * The Leaf-Chronicle * October 27, 2009 For the 55th year, this community will recognize excellence in farmland conservation and achievement next month.

Deputies in Montgomery County are searching for a robber who held up a Harrison Township Rite Aid.

Montgomery County detectives are looking for the man who abducted a 14-year-old girl from a bus stop Wednesday afternoon and raped her.

YELLVILLE - It's impossible not to smile and tap your toes when Violet Hensley plays the fiddle.

It happened around 10:30 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Township Line Road and Swedesford Road.

A woman died in a mobile home fire near Magnolia last night. The fire started just before 9pm at the home on Laurel Lane near Pine Bark.

Billionaire R. Allen Stanford is back behind bars, according to his attorney, after he was in a hospital for several days following a jail fight.

FRANCONIA, Pa. - September 22, 2009 -- Four people were taken to area hospitals after a hazmat incident in Montgomery County Tuesday morning.

Regional planning district plans to accept applications for funds Story date: Sept.

Deputies in Montgomery County are investigating a shooting that left one man dead.

There will be class Tuesday in the North Penn School District. A Montgomery County judge issued an injunction, thwarting the teacher's threat to strike.

Michael Morva's trial will be moved out of Montgomery County. A judge ruled today that it was impossible to separate information about his trial from his brother's, William Morva.

A Mount Ida man who has worked for 55 years as a volunteer weather observer for the National Weather Service is one of six recipients in the nation of the agency's Thomas Jefferson Award.

The North Penn Education Association voted overwhelmingly, by 94-percent, to authorize a strike.

Authorities in Montgomery County are trying to find out who is disturbing graves at a local cemetery.

Authorities in Montgomery County want to speak to anyone who was in the area of Caldwell Fields from Wednesday to Thursday mornings.

There are new details in the murders of two Virginia Tech students. Montgomery county sheriffa s investigators are calling the shootings "a random act". Two VA Tech sophomores - David Metzler and Heidi Childs - were found shot to death Thursday morning around a car parked in the Jefferson National Forest.

WEST BRANDYWINE, Pa. - August 26, 2009 -- The West Brandywine Police are requesting the public's assistance in finding Toni Lee Sharpless, of North Field Drive.